Digital BW, The Print

Todd,

You wrote:

>...My older "final" images (for Paul's var tone method)
>are in Adobe RGB, and
>in the last week I've made a bunch of
>grayscale scans which either have no
>profile attached, or Gray Gamma 2.2.
>The Defaults Paul spoke of specify
>sRGB, and Gray Gamma 2.2.

>So, should I use Convert to Profile to bring
>the Adobe RGB images into the
>sRGB space, and use Assign Profile to bring
>my untagged grayscale files into Gamma 2.2?

I really don't know.  It you have a test file you might try it with the
various options and just see what happens.  Let us know.

I'm not an expert in these color spaces.  My impression is that the larger
ones might encompass all of the smaller ones and, and thus make no
difference.  Also, if the color space of the image is limited, I wonder if
these tags make much difference.

Perhaps one of the color experts on the group can share some expertise here.

>I get confused as to when to Convert and when to Assign profiles.

So do I.  I usually try to avoid all the profiles, etc. and go with the
standard, default settings.  However, we have found that some of the printer
settings make a big difference.  I think trial and error will be needed to
find out which settings mess up the system and which ones make no
difference.

Paul